Štefan Rác
created: 04. 05. 2021 11:19 modified: 04. 05. 2021 11:20
Štefan Rác comes from the village of Bolešov, from a family with six children. His father was a mason, his mother was a housewife. He himself has five sons. As a little boy, he used to come to a blacksmith's workshop, to a local railway blacksmith. In the village of Bohatá, he learned the craft of blacksmithing - farriery. After school he started working in the Kliment Jefremovič Vorošilov Plant in Dubnica nad Váhom. From the farriery he worked his way into a large machine forging. After military service, he returned to the factory, where he worked as a blacksmith for making tools for the entire company. He worked in the plant until his retirement. He worked in Libya for three years as a blacksmithing teacher.
The photographs were taken during the documentation of the blacksmith craft at the European Roma Blacksmiths Symposium in Dunajská Lužná.
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 28. 06. 2014
category: visual art
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Štefan Rác general audience internal